Anyone who knows this ship can already see the problem.
She’s in her 1937 refit condition.
Meaning she SHOULD have a entirely different Turtleback layout, than this copy and paste from the Barham.
Warspite had a heavily upgraded Turtleback and deck plating. Which was 5 inches thick over the Magazines, and 4 inches thick over the Machinery spaces.
Plus she is missing alot of her AA guns, Mostly Oerlikon 20mm’s that were placed around the ship.
That’s from her 1924 Refit. Not the 37 refit.
The 1924 refit is when she first had her deck armor reinforced SOME, but not as much as the 37 refit. Its also when she first received Torpedo Bulges.
This is her armor layout as of the 1937 refit, and you can see that it specifies that the angled plates were reinforced.
The Guide to decode the above diamgram:
And even if the Slope deck was never reinforced (which it was), She still is missing armor. The magazine protection is missing a whole INCH of armor. Same for the Machinery spaces.
It should be 127mm, and 89mm. Not 101mm and 63mm.
Backing plates (original HT) are always ignored. Only count the NC plates on top.
Not sure if you have noticed, but he literally showed you an original blueprint. The very same that which was reproduced in the Anatomy of the Ship book, and where you get your diagrams.
READ.
That blueprint is from her 1924 Refit.
Warspite had her armor upgraded Twice, once in 1924, and again in 37, in 24 it was upgraded some but not to the degree it was in 1937.
in 1937 that 24 upgrade armor was completely cut out and removed when they had to strip her down to replace Warspite’s boilers, and all new armor was put in.
And the 37 armor upgrade included upgrades to her slope deck.
Warspite had her entire internal armor profile changed in 1937, She was a completely different ship. The machinery spaces were heavily divided and reinforced, the Deck plating was heavily reinforced, Not just the bottom deck either, every deck received an additional inch of armor all the way up to her main deck.
You were saying?
I mean considering the fact that the last time yall showed Blueprints like this, it was heavily disproven… In the case of the Renwon (WHICH YOU STILL HAVEN’T FIXED)
I don’t trust that. at all.
Also 1, its not a backing plate. Its the original armor thickness, they just layered extra steel over it to thicken the ENTIRE plate.
TWO. Then why even have the slope deck at all then? Because its the SAME PLATE as this so called “backing plate”.
You can’t just ignore it in one spot, and keep it there in another. Either make the deck plating the CORRECT thickness, or remove the slope deck.
Yes, it is. When a higher-grade steel (NC) is layered on top of an lesser quality steel (HT), only the strongest is considered.
Developers’ decision. Under normal circumstances, it would have been classified as structural steel, and wouldn’t show in Armor view.
High tensile refers to what, high tensile strength?
That must be why the extra armor on the Super Pershing is useless if that is yall’s Philosophy.
How exactly is this in games “structural steel”? ( with the same kinetic ability as rubber)
Strenght, hardness, and toughness, all good attributes for performant armour, especially in the case of an armoured naval vessel, where ductile metal makes your ship… bend…
At best, model high tensile steel as a material?
Because it was layered under a higher quality steel. It doesn’t matter what the material is. Only the strongest is considered armour in this case.
They do, Look at the Vidar.
They are just being pedantic because they know that if they Modeled the Warspite Correctly, they would actually be giving the british a good usable vehicle.
And they can’t have that, the British must always be the worst tree.
You spoke like you’re the person who travelled to the archives and inspected hundred pages of original blueprints and ship logs etc in person instead of me?
Average anti intellectualism coping, very well, go ahead.
If you cannot provide any counterclaims against proof, then please don’t just say that you won’t accept it. Sources were found and therefore it is like it is now, so if you have sources possibly disproving that, then feel free to share
